What are some examples of rivers?

Examples are the Mississippi, Saint Lawrence, Danube, Ohio, Thames and Paran rivers. Old river: A river with a low gradient and low erosive energy. Old rivers are characterized by flood plains. Examples are the Yellow, lower Ganges, Tigris, Euphrates, Indus and lower Nile rivers.

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What exactly is a river?

A river is a ribbon-like body of water that flows downhill from the force of gravity. A river can be wide and deep, or shallow enough for a person to wade across. A flowing body of water that is smaller than a river is called a stream, creek, or brook.

What are three characteristics of an old river?

Ridges are sharp, valleys are steep sided, and the landscape has maximum relief. Old age. The valley walls wear down, the river creates a broad flood plain, and begins to meander, or develop wide bends.

What is river water called?

river A river is a large, flowing body of water that usually empties into a sea or ocean.riverbed A riverbed is the bottom of the river (or other body of water).source The source is the beginning of a stream or river.tributary A tributary is a river or stream that flows into another stream, river, or lake.2

What is it called where a river meets the sea?

Estuaries: Where the River Meets the Sea.

Which is the longest river in the world?

WORLDNile: 4,132 miles.Amazon: 4,000 miles.Yangtze: 3,915 miles.

Which country in the world has no river?

Saudi Arabia Kuwait

What is the second largest river in the world?

Amazon River

Which country have most rivers?

Russia

Which country has many rivers?

Russia does have the largest number of rivers in the world, and also 5 of the largest rivers on earth, those being Angara, Irtysh, Ob, Amur, Argun, Lena, and the Volga (Longest river in Europe).

Why Brahmaputra is known as Red River?

The soil of this area is rich in iron content naturally this gives the color red to the river with a high concentration of sediments of red and yellow soil.